top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-03-07

How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies

http://www.mediumdifficulty.com/2012/03/06/how-i-helped-destroy-star-wars-galaxies/

14 years ago

650 upvotes – 119 comments

Pinterest, We Have a Problem

http://whatblag.com/2012/03/07/pinterest-we-have-a-problem/

14 years ago

446 upvotes – 151 comments

A 1-star, unfiltered user review of Yelp

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/07/EDKN1NGO74.DTL

14 years ago

402 upvotes – 193 comments

SSH Key Audit on Github (required)

https://github.com/settings/ssh/audit

14 years ago

292 upvotes – 105 comments

Apple releases Ipad 3

http://www.apple.com/ipad/?r=3

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 327 comments

Why Bootstrap might be very important

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/03/07/whyBootstrapMightBeVeryImp.html

14 years ago

269 upvotes – 83 comments

I’m an Engineer, Not a Compiler

http://www.numbergrinder.com/2009/02/im-an-engineer-not-a-compiler/

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 151 comments

Great, Another Bootstrap Site

http://drawar.com/d/great-another-bootstrap-site/

14 years ago

213 upvotes – 109 comments

Bsnes has emulated every SNES DSP

http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 37 comments

Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?

http://gun.io/blog/secure-your-domain-where-is-safe-to-register-a-domain-name/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 74 comments

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 111 comments

We Need to Talk About Android

http://speirs.org/blog/2012/3/6/we-need-to-talk-about-android.html

14 years ago

195 upvotes – 150 comments

Unity 3D is free on Android and iOS until April 8th

https://store.unity3d.com/index.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 41 comments

Work at a Startup 2012

http://workatastartup.org/

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 29 comments

Chrome exploit and sandbox escape demonstrated at CanSecWest, $60k awarded

https://pwnium.appspot.com/

14 years ago

132 upvotes – 43 comments

HipChat acquired by Atlassian

http://blog.hipchat.com/2012/03/07/weve-been-acquired-by-atlassian/

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 50 comments

Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 10-year absence

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/electronic-arts-bringing-back-simcity-franchise-after-10-year-absence/2012/03/07/gIQAJfHkwR_story.html

14 years ago

123 upvotes – 69 comments

Nvidia Is Joining The Linux Foundation

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2NzI

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 16 comments

Awful Recruiters

http://awfulrecruiters.com/

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 69 comments

Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/stakeout-how-the-fbi-tracked-and-busted-a-chicago-anon.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 53 comments

Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs

http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/03/tevatron-confirms-115-135-gev-higgs.html

14 years ago

98 upvotes – 16 comments

Django Settings for Production and Development: Best Practices

http://www.sparklewise.com/django-settings-for-production-and-development-best-practices/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

Difference Between URL and URI

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176264/whats-the-difference-between-a-uri-and-a-url

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

Graphene: A D3.js, Backbone.js based Graphite Dashboard Toolkit

https://github.com/jondot/graphene

14 years ago

★ 2.8k CSS
97 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password

https://github.com/skattyadz/JavaScript-RGB-Password

14 years ago

★ 147 JavaScript
95 upvotes – 62 comments

MySQL branch maintained and used at Google

https://code.google.com/p/google-mysql/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 9 comments

How to Write a Self-Documenting API - Heyzap API release

http://stdout.heyzap.com/2012/03/07/how-to-write-a-self-documenting-api/

14 years ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Airscape - Astounding rotating HTML5 platform game

http://www.scirra.com/arcade/addicting-rotary-games/848

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 40 comments

Terminal scrollback written to local disk, including remote ssh sessions.

http://www.climagic.org/bugreports/libvte-scrollback-written-to-disk.html

14 years ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Key/value is dead. Long live tuples: Pangool for Hadoop

http://www.datasalt.com/2012/03/pangool-hadoop-api-made-easy/

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

How to win a hackathon

http://blog.rumma.ge/post/18897267184/how-to-win-a-hackathon

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

The Command Line Challenge.

http://blog.chavezgu.com/2012/03/07/the-command-line-challenge/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published - 3.2.6 Kernel + GCC 4.6.2

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-From-Scratch-7-1-published-1463152.html

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 13 comments

A Python Reading List by Wesley Chun

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1849069

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

Do Something Meaningful - Coding for the World

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18917120117/coding-for-the-world

14 years ago

69 upvotes – 24 comments

Ralph McQuarrie Remembered

http://www.starwars.com/news/ralph_mcquarrie_remembered.html

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 9 comments

One-dimensional Reputation Is Meaningless

http://diegobasch.com/hey-klout-one-dimensional-reputation-is-meani

14 years ago

57 upvotes – 11 comments

Using the sed Editor

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/dulaney-sed-098420.html

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 12 comments

Architecting for Uptime

http://blog.serverfault.com/2012/03/06/architecting-for-uptime/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 14 comments

Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers

http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/06/adobe-launches-shadow-a-new-toolkit-for-mobile-developers/

14 years ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

Don't Read Tech Blogs: 10 Pieces of Startup Advice from Backupify's Rob May

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/03/07/don%E2%80%99t-read-tech-blogs-10-ideas-from-backupifys-rob-may/?single_page=true

14 years ago

48 upvotes – 7 comments

Judy Arrays

http://judy.sourceforge.net

14 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments

JavaScript Library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps

http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

“Disappointing” iPad 3 speculation

http://www.marco.org/2012/03/06/disappointing-ipad-3

14 years ago

46 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

http://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/hohn/

14 years ago

45 upvotes – 17 comments
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